The whole furry thing is creepy as hell. It’s weird. Wanting to have sex with anthropomorphized animals is not a thing that should be normalized.
And it’s even creepier when they add things like “kitten” or showing anthropomorphized animal kids.
And thank you to Unruffled [they/them] / Flatworm7591 @lemmy.dbzer0.com for this sane and reasonable response.
And thanks to recursive_recursion who seems to be an alt of Flatworm for continuing that sane and reasonable response. Note that in over 1,400 comments here I’ve never once said a single word against trans people. Not once.
It really bothers me when people lie about racism. So many people really do experience it so much in life, and lying using false racism accusations as a sword and shield to make other people look bad and make themselves look like the victim is demeaning to every real instance people suffer.
Hopefully one day this person realizes that lying about transphobia for the same reasons does the same thing.
The weird part comes from a lot of people not realizing it’s a sexual thing. Adults and kids both. It was only relatively recently I’ve heard of people wearing those suits for other things. That seems weird too, honestly. It would be like if people started wearing gimp outfits to family events and having parents ask if their kids can get a photo with them.
Even if not all people in gimp outfits are wearing them for sexual reasons, it’s still a thing that’s part of a sexual fetish. People starting to wear them to family events because kids who don’t understand that think it looks neat would be creepy.
Cakes are part of a sexual fetish; does that make all cakes weird? Should we not have them in public, or at kids’ birthdays? The fact that that isn’t their primary function probably suggests that no, they’re fine.
But people aren’t wearing cakes and interacting with people that are unsuspecting that it is a fetish.
In my experience it seems like the furry thing was heavily to primarily sexually focused from the start. That’s why I compared it to gimp suits, not to cake.
Sure, and you’ve been given the wrong impression. Much as with anything humans are involved with, it’s been sexualized in some segments - I know people who want to fuck mining equipment - but that isn’t at all representative of wthe whole subculture. You’re only seeing the “weird sex pervert” thing because that’s an easy way to attack a group (look at how trans people are being presented), not because that’s an accurate representation of the group given to you by well-informed authorities on the subject. It’s unfortunately the effects of pretty straightforward bigotry.
I’m in my late 40s and have been an internet nerd since chatting on usenet before ICQ was a thing… I’ve watched the fandom grow. It’s difficult to take someone saying the sex part isn’t sort of a big deal when it’s a community that seems to have mostly spread online and the sexualization has always been front and center. These days scrolling Reddit, Bluesky, and many other places online you’re pretty much guaranteed to see images of sexualized anthropomorphized animals.
We are open about sex, however that does not mean the fandom is centered on sex we just don’t avoid it.
You mean to say that there’s porn on the internet? Dear god, someone fetch me my clutching pearls! And they’re going so far as to sexualize women, too?!? Clearly, that must mean everyone out there, wearing human clothes, attending human events with children, they must be doing it because they’re all sex perverts who only want to trick the other humans into sexy sexing times! Disgusting!
The ones wearing their lingerie, gimp suits, strap-ons, and other items they use as part of their private sexual life just might be.
Yeah, and if you see a furry wearing a yiffing suit you might have a point. But I will bet all my money and a kidney that you have never, ever seen that in public. But you’ve declared, without evidence, that all fursuits are fetishwear, and that’s how you’re justifying your own behavior to yourself. Some people get turned on by jeans, or as someone else said wear buttplugs in public - and yet if you went around treating everyone like they were doing that, you’d be treated like a complete creep.
Again, the internet is full of sexualized furry images. The bulk of the people interested didn’t come to it from normal daily offline activities. Likewise the bulk of the images of people wearing gimp suits on the internet are sexualized, because it’s another thing used for fetish sex.
I don’t feel a need to know that a specific gimp suit is used for fetish sex to know that it’s creepy and weird for groups of people to be walking around in them in public.